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As far as i know ... google does once in a while a recalculation of PR .... and that is what i call an update
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I think what Chris and Shabbirbhimani and others are saying is that Google CONSTANTLY updates the PageRank of every page in their index. Basically whenever they spider a site with a link to you or even to someone who currently links to you, it changes the stored PageRank factors in their system. To keep their systems running optimally and to keep the SEO community working for their approval, Google only updates the PR numbers that show in the toolbar every few months.
EX: I link to Chrishirst and he links to Shabbirbhimani. If I get spidered again and get bumped from a PR2 to PR4, then Chrishirst might go from a PR6 to PR7 because the site linking to him is more of an authority. chris' site going to a 7 would bump Shabbirbihimani's site up to a PR8 because he's got a 7 linking into him. That's how backlinks effect PageRank and thats what changes the most often.
So camp185 could have been a PR6 for weeks. Sleepy127 could have had increased rankings in Google for months. But it shows up now in the Google toolbar. That's all this update is, is an update of the numbers that show in the Google toolbar.
The reason why some of the older posters get snippy with this topic is because its been asked and answered so many times. This is something that very few people seem to grasp and anyone that's relatively new to SEO and PR doesn't get it. I've only been doing this a couple months now, but its been beaten into my skull so many times that it finally made sense.
The point is, just because you now show as a PR6 doesn't mean that you haven't had a PR of 6 for months now. Monitoring traffic and conversions is a much better use of your time that watching PageRank.
My 2 cents.
Last edited by loganeast; 05-01-2007 at 02:18 PM..
Reason: had to fix my abyssmal grammar and add the example
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